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Salary: CAD 155,000 - 165,000 / annual
Cardata is transforming how businesses manage vehicle reimbursement with smart, automated solutions. We're seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead a small, self-contained innovation group focused on building product experiences that differentiate us in the market.
You will operate as an entrepreneurial product leader within the organization, working alongside a web-focused developer and a mobile-focused developer. Your mission is to identify valuable problems, form clear hypotheses, define minimal viable experiences to test them, and get working prototypes in front of customers quickly. You'll iterate rapidly based on feedback—moving from V1 through V2, V3, and V4—until the group has sufficient evidence to stop, pivot, or invest further.
The core operating principle is: build to learn first, then build to scale. You'll keep the team focused on the most important unanswered question, resist premature scope expansion, and avoid designing the final product too early. Once a concept is validated, you'll assess what's required to harden and scale it, build the investment case, and prepare it for handoff to the core product and engineering team.
Key responsibilities include:
- Translating company strategy, market insight, and customer problems into focused product bets with clear hypotheses
- Defining customer, problem, value proposition, assumptions, and validation evidence for each opportunity
- Collaborating with developers to shape the smallest end-to-end driver-and-admin experience that tests the idea (often within 1–2 weeks)
- Creating clear user flows and lightweight requirements without unnecessary process overhead
- Recruiting customers and market validation groups; leading prototype sessions and distinguishing signal from noise
- Making decisive trade-offs across customer value, commercial potential, scope, speed, usability, and technical risk
- Keeping the team aligned on learning objectives, changes, and next steps
- Defining success measures and recommending whether to stop, pivot, continue iterating, or invest further
- Partnering with technical leaders to determine hardening and scaling requirements
- Building the business and product case for graduation and preparing strategy, evidence, and requirements for handoff
This is not a traditional roadmap or backlog-management role. You'll need strong customer instincts, commercial judgment, technical fluency, and a bias toward action. You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, changing course when evidence demands it, and doing hands-on work to keep a small team moving.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7–9 years of Product Management experience, including meaningful work in B2B SaaS startups or similarly fast-moving environments
- Track record of turning ambiguous customer or market problems into working prototypes and validated product opportunities
- Experience leading rapid discovery and iteration cycles directly with customers
- Experience building multi-persona products with connected workflows
- Strong product judgment: ability to identify the riskiest assumption, reduce scope without losing the learning objective, and recognize when evidence is strong enough to proceed
- UX fluency sufficient to shape coherent workflows and give developers clear direction without depending on a dedicated designer for every iteration
- Strong commercial instincts and ability to connect product decisions to differentiation, revenue, retention, cost, or strategic value
- Strong technical fluency, including APIs, data models, system boundaries, integrations, security, and architectural trade-offs
- Comfort working day-to-day with developers, making decisions quickly, and adjusting priorities as new evidence emerges
- Excellent facilitation and communication skills with customers, developers, executives, and cross-functional partners
- High ownership, low ego, and discipline to abandon or change an idea when evidence does not support it
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience operating as an early-stage or founding Product Manager
- Experience with mobile and web products that work together as one customer journey
- Experience with B2B2C product experiences
- Experience in regulated, compliance-heavy, logistics, mobility, or transportation-related industries
- Experience taking a validated concept through production hardening, scale, and handoff to a larger product and engineering organization
